The strike called by the metalworkers' unions Fiom, Fim and Uilm against the 4 redundancies envisaged in the plan of the new Arcelor Mittal-Marcegaglia ownership has started today in all Ilva plants.
However, the government is also moving in the face of the workers' protests, announcing yesterday through Defense Minister Roberta Pinotti that it will ask the new Ilva owners to "reduce the number of redundancies and not cancel the rights acquired by workers".
The Minister of Economic Development, Carlo Calenda, will also take this into account in today's meeting with the unions and the company on the new Ilva plan, which promises to be on the rise.
